What is the name of Gandhiji’s father? What is the name of Sardar Patel’s father? What is the name of Sardar Patel’s wife? None of my well informed friends had a definitive answer. This is the tragedy of Congress politics and its impact on the nation. Gandhiji led the most extra...
Although Sonia Gandhi was not pleased, she was a dutiful wife and supported her husband's decision. In 1981 Rajiv ran successfully for Parliament and took over the seat vacated by his brother. He served as the representative from the Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern ...
The descendants of the Sindhi Kings, such as the descendants of Samma and Rai Sahasi, now read and write in Gujarati script. The descendants of the ruler Jam Abrro, who sacrificed his throne, his life, and even his sons to save one hundred and fifty women during the martyrdom of Dodo S...
I was posted as Signal Communication Officer of the second one of the indigenous modified Leander Class design ships of the indigenous Godavari class: Indian Naval Ship Ganga. She was commissioned on 30th Dec 1985 by the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and we had the distinction of taking he ...
Govindram introduced her to Hindi cinema for playback singing in 1942. Mangti (1942) was her first Hindi film for which she sang 10 songs;all super-hit. She sang in another film Nishane (1942) which too was a hit. In the next year she sang in three movies named Paapi, Poonji, ...
of the country such as Ambala, Dharamshala, and Chennai. The last rally was in Jalandhar, Punjab, and the next is in the historic Azad Maidan in Mumbai on 31st Oct 15. It is the same venue where the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi held a rally against the British in Dec 1931...
First a caution before reading this post: Do you remember what Alfred Einstein said about Mahatma Gandhi? You do! Well, nevertheless I am refreshing your memory; he said, “Coming generations will scarcely believe that such a man of flesh and blood ever walked the earth.” It was the same...
Pitaji was to return home empty-handed but on an impulse my father said that he was ready for marriage! Marriages are made in heaven and both families accepted it. My father, just like his brothers, was a self-made man and had all the attributes of self-made men: diligence, fierce ...
It is from the1963 movie Meri Soorat Teri Aankhen. The movie had a beautiful story with a lesson for all of us. Raj Kumar (Ishwarlal) is a wealthy businessman and dislikes everything ugly. When his wife, Kamla (Achla Sachdev), becomes pregnant and gives birth to an ugly son, he ask...